Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Rob Reiner comments: ‘So hateful and vile’
Late-night hosts reacted to the murder of legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, as well as Donald Trump’s 10-minute tangent about Christmas snakes.“This is the kind of weekend that makes you wonder if things will ever feel good again,” said Jimmy Kimmel on Monday evening, after a couple days of horrific news: the terror attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Australia’s Bondi Beach, a mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, and the “murder of one of our greatest directors and patriots, Rob Reiner, and his wife, Michele Reiner”.“What we need in a time like this, besides common sense when it comes to guns and mental health care, is compassion and leadership,” he continued.“We did not get that from our president, because he has none of it to give.Instead, we got a fool rambling about nonsense.
”In a much-maligned post to Truth Social, Trump claimed that Reiner and his wife “passed away”, due to “the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS”.“Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he somehow finds a way to do that,” Kimmel responded.“His description of what happened of course is not at all what happened.And this is exactly what I’ve spoken about before.This rush to pin the tail on the donkey in pursuit of the Trump-friendly narrative.
“Not to mention blaming his death on the fact that he is an outspoken liberal, insulting someone who has just been murdered, who leaves children behind, without having any idea of what actually happened.It’s so hateful and vile.”Kimmel noted that when he first saw Trump’s post, he thought it was fake; “even for him that seemed like too much,” he said.“But nothing is ever too much for him.”Trump doubled down on his comments later on Monday, calling Reiner “deranged” to reporters at the White House and saying: “I thought he was very bad for our country.
”“That corroded brain is in charge of our lives,” said Kimmel.“If you voted for that, it’s OK to reconsider … I know from my personal interactions with Rob Reiner that he would want us to keep pointing out the loathsome atrocities that continue to ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man’s mouth.And so we’re going to do that, over and over again, until the rest of us wake up.”Stephen Colbert did not wade into the tragedy on the Late Show, instead focusing on Trump’s Sunday, in which he “celebrated the first night of Hanukkah by holding a Christmas party, where he told a story that somehow lasted eight nights”.Colbert set the scene: “Trump’s in front of a group of families, including small children who are waiting to see Santa – which, knowing this administration, is probably a shirtless RFK Jr.
”“Anyway, rather that give you some canned remarks, Trump decided to do a little crowd work.” After spotting a man named Dr James Jones, he launched into a 10-minute story about snakebites in Peru.“Twenty-eight thousand people die a year from a snakebite of a certain snake,” the president claimed.“It’s a viper, right?”“This is a speech about Christmas,” Colbert reminded.“You might be thinking, why snakes? Have you forgotten the immortal words of Tiny Tim – ‘Oh God, it got me! Suck the poison out! Hit it with a crutch, you idiot!’”Colbert also factchecked Trump’s claim, and found that from the years 2000 until 2015, only 10 people died of snake bites in Peru.
To quote Trump himself: “This is a terrible Christmas story.”And on Late Night, Seth Meyers also delved into Trump’s rambling Christmas snake tale, which left him scarred.“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I will have a great Christmas,” he said, “because the next time I walk into someone’s house for a Christmas party and see some green tinsel wrapped around the bannister, I’m going to go apeshit with a golf club screaming: ‘Watch out, it’s a viper!’”“I’m starting to think that Maga and Fox News have switched sides in the war on Christmas, because it’s not just snake stories,” he added.“Trump has also been telling people not to buy their kids so many dolls, because his tariffs have caused price hikes.”“You always need steel,” said Trump at a rally last week.
“You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter – two or three is nice,But you don’t need 37 dolls,”“OK first of all, Trump’s brain is so clearly stuck in the 1950s, because the only kids’ things he can think of are dolls and pencils,” Meyers laughed,“I mean, looking back, I guess we should all be happy that didn’t end in a snake story,”Meyers also mocked Fox News for running with Trump’s doll story, in one clip advising its viewers to save money by not buying presents for adults this year, and forgoing slippers for grandma.
“You guys have spent years whining about the radical left’s ‘war on Christmas’, and now you’re telling people not to buy slippers for grandma?” he joked.“Also, you’re Fox News.The only people watching the show is grandma.”
Caesareans overtake natural vaginal births in England for first time, NHS data finds
Births through caesarean section have overtaken natural vaginal births in England for the first time, NHS data has revealed.Last year, 45% of births in England were through caesareans, 44% were through natural vaginal births and 11% were assisted with instruments such as forceps or ventouse, according to the data published on Tuesday.More than four in 10 caesareans, also known as C-sections, carried out by NHS England were elective, planned operations.For women under the age of 30, the most common method of delivery was natural vaginal birth, and for women aged 30 and over caesareans were the most common.For women aged 40 and over, 59% of births were through C-sections
Resident doctors in England begin five days of strike action
Resident doctors in England have begun five days of strike action after rejecting the government’s latest offer to resolve the long-running dispute over pay and jobs.The British Medical Association (BMA), and the health secretary, Wes Streeting, met on Tuesday in a final attempt to reach an agreement, but failed to do so.It means that resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors – will remain on strike until 7am on Monday.The latest offer from the government would have increased the number of training places to enable early career doctors to start training in their chosen medical speciality, but not increased their pay for the current financial year.Resident doctors, who make up about half of all NHS doctors, overwhelmingly rejected the offer in a BMA survey last week, with 83% voting against it on a 65% turnout
The Guardian’s Hope appeal raises more than £350,000 for charities
The Guardian’s Hope appeal has raised more than £350,000 for inspirational grassroots charities that bring divided communities together, promote tolerance and positive change, and tackle racism and hatred.The figure, raised in less than two weeks, includes more than £30,000 donated during the annual telethon last Saturday, when more than 40 journalists including John Crace, Polly Toynbee and Simon Hattenstone were on hand to take readers’ calls.The 2025 appeal is raising funds for five charities: Citizens UK, The Linking Network, Locality, Hope Unlimited and Who Is Your Neighbour?Against a backdrop of extremist violence and rhetoric, growing demonisation of migrants, harassment and abuse of charities, and the re-emergence of “1970s-style racism”, our partner charities are delivering practical projects designed to promote empathy, build trust and establish common values.Coverage to date has featured a Citizen’s UK “Walk of Hope” turning anger into community pride, Back on the Map’s work to revitalise a neighbourhood after far-right riots in 2024, and The Linking Network’s programme uniting primary schoolchildren from different faiths and backgrounds.“Thank you to the Guardian readers for your incredible generosity
Adults in England with eating disorders wait up to 700 days for treatment, report finds
Adults with eating disorders in England are waiting up to 700 days for vital treatment, according to a report.The stark figures were revealed in the first report of the National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED), which looked at access to eating disorder services across the country.The audit, commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership and funded by NHS England, found there were more community teams to support children than there were for adults.On average, adults with eating disorders had to wait twice as long as children for an assessment, and more than 10 times as long for treatment, the report found.The eating disorder charity Beat said the “growing disparity” between child and adult services was “particularly worrying”
Wes Streeting and resident doctors urged to agree to mediation to end strikes
Exasperated NHS bosses have urged Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association to agree to independent mediation to end industrial action by resident doctors, who will begin their latest strike on Wednesday.The health secretary and the doctors union have been told to embrace the idea in order to urgently break the deadlock in their increasingly bitter dispute that health service bosses say is making patients “collateral damage”.An arbitrator could work to bridge the gap between them and resolve the 33-month-long dispute in England, the NHS Confederation, which represents hospital bosses, said.Thousands of resident – formerly junior – doctors in England will strike from 7am on Wednesday for five days in their 14th strike action since 2023.Hospitals have cancelled tens of thousands of tests and treatments to help them cope with the extra pressure they will be under until the strike ends at 7am next Monday 22 December
Striking resident doctors are digging in. History suggests this will go on and on
There are an array of numbers relating to the NHS that, it’s safe to assume, make Wes Streeting wince.Take, for example, the number of hospital tests and treatments people in England are waiting for – 7.42 million – and the number of people who need them – 6.24 million. Both have come down since Labour took power 17 months ago but still remain near worst-ever highs
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